Features Oct 23, 2019 at 4:00 am

Before inventing Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard experimented on his family, and he wrote about a doctor who experimented on patients.

The doctor performed lobotomies by shoving an ice pick into the patient’s eye socket. Greg Houston

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I guess lots of people can be nuts at once.

2

Good story! Feels like Western State has a million of them.

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Man, this is nuts, I never knew he lived around here

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Man, this is nuts, I never knew he lived around here.

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Not only did Hubbard live around here, several core members of his founding Dianetics/Scientology inner circle split off and founded... Re-evaluation Counseling (aka "RC', aka "co-counseling') here too.

These dudes disagreed with Hubbard in ways I don't fully understand, so they started their own self-help non-cult. RC is not actually identified as a cult by cult-watch groups, and they do teach regular people basic, real Freudian active listening techniques that can actually help others work through their own issues.

But the nepotism at the top, and multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by those nepotistic leaders, to say nothing of the near- or actual- revolt that has gone on inside this group --ALL SO VERY SILENTLY-- are all quite concerning details.

What? you say, you've never even HEARD of any "RC" group that split off from the Dianetics core team yet continued teaching the same basic methods to neophytes? Huh. Wonder why that might be...


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